Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Lantz's clients include such writers as James Baldwin, such occasional writers as Leonard Bernstein and non-writers as Mike Nichols. Lantz is particularly adept at movie roles. "You have to know the territory," he explains. "You must know the real dope -who is hot, who are the bankable elements of a deal, who has the ear of an important star or director. Everything is interrelated. Every work of art can be commercially exploited, can go into anything, become anything...
Died. Scott Lucas, 76, longtime (1939-50) U.S. Senator from Illinois and Democratic majority leader under Harry Truman; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rocky Mount, N.C. A confirmed New Dealer, Lucas backed an internationalist foreign policy, farm and social security legislation, proved so adept in cloakroom maneuvering that he was chosen majority leader in 1949, only to lose his seat to an even more adept Republican, Everett McKinley Dirksen...
...with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that the Viet Cong alone guard the grail of Vietnamese nationalism. They are simply better organized than the hopelessly fragmented moderates, who also qualify as genuine nationalists; and the V.C. are far more adept at the use of terror and brutality to gain their ends. Still, despite more than a few drawbacks, Galbraith's proposals do offer at least a foundation for a responsible opposition policy...
...tribesmen in the secessionist state of Biafra are proving as adept at the business of defending their homeland as they have always been at trade and commerce. That is the impression brought back last week by Western newsmen who flew into the Biafran city of Port Harcourt in a darkened plane to get their first look at Nigeria's rebellious state. Though Biafra hired a Hollywood public relations man to organize the trip, TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, who went along, learned enough on his own by moving around the country, talking with Biafrans and Europeans and interviewing Biafra...
...play written 2,400 years ago, Euripides, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War led him to offer up the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives modern force to an ancient tale...